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Well, you see, he IS. And that's the problem. Because his mom is, too, and you can't have two perfect people in one family - they'd drive each other bonkers. Oh, wait, what am I saying - too late for Max.....


Hmm, I use many adjectives to describe my mother but for some reason "perfect" has never been one of them. Her gift of the traits I consider undesirable - selfishness, arrogance, aggressiveness, a hurtful snide wit and pettiness is a good advert for the "nature" side of the old "nature/nurture" since she was gone before I was 3 and left the nurturing to my Dad, eminently better suited for the task.

Oh, and as for being bonkers, of course! At another forum my handle is porangimaxq, porangi being the Maaori word for doolally.



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